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The Parliamentary Panel on Health and Family Welfare has asked the Ministry of Ayush to work towards integrated healthcare facilities with collaborative synthesis between allopathy and Ayush systems of medicine.
The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare in its 168th report on action taken by the government on the recommendations the Panel has made in the 165th report on Demands for Grants 2025-26 of the Ministry of Ayush, also asked the Ministry to collaborate with the Ministry of Health to establish pluralistic healthcare system by setting up a Department of Ayush in all the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
While appreciating the action taken by various bodies under the Ministry on the implementation of its recommendation to bring into existence a cooperative and collaborative synthesis between allopathy and Ayush systems of medicine, the Panel expressed concern that still some of the institutes/bodies under Ayush has in their action taken just mentioned “noted” or just expressed agreement with its recommendation.
Some of them shared their replies speaking in future tense without mentioning any steps that has actually been taken on their end to implement the Panel's recommendation at present, it observed.
"The Committee is of the considered view, keeping in consideration the cherished goals of the Ministry to have integrated healthcare wherein Ayush and allopathy go hand in hand to put Indian Healthcare at a commanding position in the world," said the Panel headed by Prof. Ram Gopal Yadav, in the report presented in the Rajya Sabha in mid-December.
The Panel also expressed its dissatisfaction with the half-hearted approach of the Ministry to opening up more Ayush Centre in AIIMS and other government institutes of the country.
"The Committee thus reiterates that Department of Ayush be setup in all AIIMS across the country in a time bound manner with adequate manpower and resources as necessary for the smooth running of the department for better service of the public," added the report.
It further recommended that a collaborative effort is needed between the Ministry of Ayush and Union ministry of health to establish a pluralistic healthcare system to enhance healthcare delivery, promote well-being and preserve traditional knowledge of medicine, it averred.
The Panel also reiterated its previous recommendation that a separate centre of Ayush may also be set up in Parliament Complex for treatment of Members of Parliament (MPs), Ex-MPs and Employees and Ex-Employees of the Parliament that would not only ensure treatment of the MPs through Ayush System, but also would ensure the popularization and awareness of Ayush to each constituency as the MPs "would prove a harbinger to awareness of common masses across the county."
In the previous report, the Panel has recommended that there should be an institutional mechanism to bring the two systems of medicines on a common platform. Through this institutional mechanism, regular joint meetings between the Ministry of Ayush and ministry of health & family welfare, National Medical Commission and National Commission For Indian System Of Medicine (NCISM), National Commission for Homoeopathy (NCH) and Ayush Research Councils may be held to settle the grey areas and resolve the issues affecting health policy formulation and implementation strategies.
In the report, the Panel strongly recommended that, "instead of antagonistic relationship, there should be cooperative and collaborative approach and cohesive equilibrium between the Ayush and allopathy so that integrated and coordinated efforts may be made for treatment of various diseases."
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